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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Homecoming's Education Celebration applications and nomination forms are available online at www.gatorgrowl.org or in the Florida Blue Key Office, Room 365 in the Reitz Student Union.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. —The University of Florida College of Fine Arts kicks off National Arts and Humanities Month with its annual Arts and Cultural Opportunities Fair Monday at the Reitz Student Union Colonnade and North Terrace.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Every semester, the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra introduces UF students and Gainesville residents to classical music through an array of performances. This fall, Gainesville residents have the opportunity to see four free performances by the orchestra.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s September consumer confidence reached a post-recession high of 79 — up three points from a revised August reading of 76, according to a monthly University of Florida survey.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In recognition of National Childhood Obesity Month, the University of Florida Health Disparities Research and Intervention Program will sponsor a workshop Thursday for parents and children of the Alachua County Public Schools Head Start Program.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the nation’s leading immigration attorneys will share her expertise on issues affecting the nation’s illegal immigrants during a special session at 6 p.m. Thursday at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service in Pugh Hall. Parking is free and the session is open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When University of Florida researcher Robert McCleery and a graduate student began looking at why an endangered marsh rabbit’s habitat was disappearing in the Florida Keys, they fully expected the blame would fall on development.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On Tuesday, thousands of voters will celebrate the inauguration of a new holiday — National Voter Registration Day — in a massive effort to register voters in all 50 states before Election Day. The University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service will join the nationwide festivities hosting “Swing the State: Voter Registration Roundup” from noon to 5 p.m. in Pugh Hall.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Coursera today announced that the University of Florida is among 17 prominent universities to sign agreements with Coursera to bring its courses online for free to expand education opportunities on university campuses and worldwide.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Contrary to conventional wisdom, negative political advertisements don’t always work as well as some believe. In part, this is because the audience with which they seem to work best — people who think government works — has been shrinking.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Responding to the oyster fishery collapse in Apalachicola Bay, experts with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Florida Sea Grant will join forces with local seafood producers to find ways of restoring sustainable populations of the area’s world-famous oysters.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries, along with the support of head football coach Will Muschamp, encourage Gator football fans to help maintain and grow the services of the libraries by pledging for every touchdown scored in the 12-game season.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The occurrence of obesity in rural areas of the U.S. is significantly higher than in urban areas, a new study from University of Florida researchers and colleagues has found. Forty percent of rural residents are obese, compared with 33 percent of urban residents.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida will return to the Mississippi Delta next week to continue research on the civil rights movement in Mississippi with veteran civil rights activists and leading scholars of the Mississippi Freedom Movement.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student Center and the Chabad-Lubavitch Student Group at the University of Florida commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 until 3 p.m. today at Turlington Plaza with a Good Deed Mitzvah Marathon in honor of the victims.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Teri Balser, dean of the University of Florida's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has been named to a group of 40 elite scholars tasked with re-imagining biology education for U.S. college undergraduates.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As U.S. Forest Service officials consider how best to improve — and someday, complete — the Florida National Scenic Trail, a University of Florida professor has been gauging trail hikers’ emotional attachments to the places they traverse.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A study by University of Florida and University of Kansas researchers describing eight new cusk-eel species provides data for better understanding how disasters like the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill impact biodiversity and the environment.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Facing a competitive job market, University of Florida students and alumni have an opportunity to meet hundreds of prospective employers during the Career Showcase Oct. 2-3 in the O’Connell Center.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium has received a Facility of Merit Award from the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security. The NCS4, which is organized and supported through the University of Southern Mississippi, is recognized nationally as an industry leader in facility and sports management safety and security operations.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida scientists publishing the first study on butterflies and moths of Guantanamo Bay Naval Station have discovered vast biodiversity in an area previously unknown to researchers.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — One of the nation’s leading experts on the psychology of politics will discuss his research during a public presentation at the University of Florida’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in Pugh Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent and the editor of High Times Magazine will go head-to-head Sept. 24 at the University of Florida in “The Great Weed Debate: Heads vs. Feds.”

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Staff applications for the University of Florida’s Homecoming and Gator Growl are now available at www.gatorgrowl.org or in the Florida Blue Key office, Room 364 in the Reitz Student Union.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — NASA’s investigations on Mars will soon extend below the planet’s surface when an international team including a University of Florida geologist sends a seismometer there for the first time to study its deep interior.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida physician and colleagues have “mythbusted” a notion long held in medical circles: patients at teaching hospitals fare worse in July when new medical graduates start their residency training and older residents take on more responsibilities. A large national study revealed no such “July phenomenon” or “July effect” — at least not in the field of neurosurgery.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, the controversial health care overhaul was both praised and panned by various groups. In June 2012, however, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law in the case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.

Three professors were quoted in an Aug. 22 South Florida Sun-Sentinel story about electronic medical records and their association with lower treatments of depression. They were: Jeffrey Harman, associate professor of health services research, management and policy; Robert Cook, associate professor of epidemiology and medicine; and Christopher Harle, associate professor of health services research, management and policy. The story was the result of a Health Science Center news release.

The University of Florida Police Department (UFPD) is currently assisting the Gainesville Police Department (GPD) as it investigates the disappearance of University of Florida student Christian Aguilar.